skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we've even seen the real potential of drone warfare on the battlefield, yet. Right now their guidance is very crude, little more than the adaptation of consumer FPV technology. Once US/RU/CN have had time to develop the technology, build up the manufacturing and logistics, and give them AI automated target selection, it's going to completely change the nature of warfare IMO.

Instead of dropping tons of expensive guided bombs and shells, attackers will drop tens of thousands of cheaper small anti-personnel hunter-seeker drones that can not only seek out human targets but wait in low power mode for a target to appear if it can't identify one at first. It'll make most kinds of static installations and defenses untenable. Units will have to constantly be on the move and camouflaged, and avoid giving up all kinds of life signs like sound/gunshots, thermal, RF comms, etc. The smaller drones will be able to help larger drones with targeting any armor they can't handle themselves while acting like free flying land mines.

I agree that it's a software problem. The Slaughterbots video [1] is already six years old and all of the pieces to make killer drone swarms were already there (just not as miniaturized as the video). Now there's data in Ukraine about how well individual drones work; AI is getting better and better; the compute is getting cheap enough to just slap on a drone; SOTA single use aluminum air batteries can already enable drones with much longer flight times than consumer batteries. All the pieces are there to make a nightmarish weapon that changes warfare as much as the machine gun, land mine, or air support.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecClODh4zYk
Yes. Seattle is earthquake country, and I want to be able to get out if the doors are blocked or jammed from earthquake or fire. It's a fireman's axe, as that job is what they're designed for. I also keep a fire extinguisher in the bedroom.
That’s the standard configuration of a MacBook Air.
how would you explain these then?

In what appears to be a first, a former employee of ByteDance, TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, has outlined specific claims that the Chinese Communist Party accessed the data of TikTok users on a broad scale, and for political purposes.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/tech/tiktok-data-china/index....

TikTok Confirms Some U.S. User Data Is Stored In China

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/06/21/tikt...

Former TikTok exec: Chinese Communist Party had “God mode” entry to US data

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/06/former-tiktok...
Controlling the OS is probably a big help there. At least, I saw lots of complaints about my zenbook model’s battery not hitting the spec. It was easy to hit or exceed it in Linux, but you have to tell it not to randomly spin up the CPU.
> Who sits down and designs a system for all twelve adjectives ("reliable", "concurrent", "redundant", "runs on a Z80") we want anyhow?

Wait, is Z80 seriously something that you want/design for?
I think I should dig up all the comments about how iPad or iPhone cant be any thinner.

Now I wish an iPhone Plus with this sort of thickness. Or basically an iPad Pro mini that is the size of iPhone.
Great technique. Thankfully every vehicle model seems to increase in size, durability, and suspension capability to mitigate any negative side effects.
Every modern operating system now does memory compression
Note that performance per watt is 2x higher at both chips peak performance. This is in many ways an unfair comparison for Apple to make.
I remember something like this in Popular Mechanics magazine (or similar) back in the 70's or perhaps even earlier. It was one of their awesome "artist's concept" piece that depicted more of a proposal, or what we might call a pipe dream, ha ha.

I wish I could find the depiction — it was a ramp with cars passing over just like that (a lot shorter however) that would drive very slowly along, paving as it went.
I'm editing 4k video and thousands of big RAW images.

The used M1 MacBook Air I just bought is by far the fastest computer I have ever used.
I said triple, because the competitors are expected to have a double speed in a few months.

If M4 were 3 times faster than it is, it would have remained faster than Strix Point and Arrow Lake, which would have been replaced only next year, giving supremacy to M4 for more than a year.

If M4 were twice faster, it would have continued to share the first position for more than a year. As it is, it will be the fastest for one quarter, after which it will have only half of the top speed.
One of the problem with a lot of schools is their layout. Yes, they have libraries. But many students have no way to access those libraries during lunch hours except by way of special passes. All school libraries should, by default, be necessarily directly adjacent to the common area so kids can browse during recess in the same way that they are adjacent to school cafeterias.
I was wondering if the canon cat leap stuff could be hoisted into emacs. I don't actually understand the Canon Cat, but from what I saw it didn't seem that far off from some of the way emacs is used.
Microsoft didn't kill Gears of War out of ineptitude or malice. It's just that consumers don't want to play cover shooters anymore. There's no market for the game's core identity. People's tastes have swung hard in the opposite direction, they want movement shooters.
My mistake, I did know they were one of the two. I should have double checked. In general I know the difference between the two just forgot which Migadu was based on.
Log Scales
I love the typo at the end. I have definitely worked with some stakeholders that I would have loved to stuff in a jar of pickling spices and leave on a shelf for several years to ferment.
In the U.S., yeah that’s how it works.
The write speed needs to match what the camera can output or the WiFi/cellular can download. It has nothing to do with the total size of the storage.
Batteries are generally better for short term storage, aka daily usage. Pumped hydro is generally better for long term storage. We need both, but we can generally efficiently get to 70-90% carbon-free electricity without long term storage so we haven't need much long term storage yet.
>I suppose the second learning is to elect governments which respect democratic freedoms, even if that puts them on the back foot.

Democratic freedoms, in the United States at least, protect people from UNREASONABLE search and seizure.

Compelling a third party to reveal information about a customer via a court order is not now, has never been, and will never be until the end of time and space, unreasonable.

The order itself might be unreasonable and should be challenged if so, but the procedure and ability to do so is not and will never be.
Where do you usually take it for that?

If I find a place in walking distance, maybe.
Does anyone know what happens to the car batteries once they are old ? Is it more economical to recycle them or sell them for home energy storage ?
The Soul Of A New Machine, by Tracy Kidder -
The history of computing fascinates me, and this is one of my favorite books on the topic.

Hackers, by Steven Levy -
Again, computing history, and especially relevant to me because I started personal computing in the mid-80s and like reading about the stuff I missed. Levy is always fun to read. There are a lot of good books on the microcomputer revolution, this one is just my favorite.

Bird By Bird, by Anne Lamott -
It's not just a book about writing, but a book about living. Lamott is a born storyteller, and every one of her non-fiction books is inspiring and highly readable.

On Writing, by Stephen King -
I am not a King fan. The only fiction piece he's written I come back to is The Stand. But the story of how he became a writer, and his life as a writer, gives me hope for my own writing. And his advice is valuable; even if I don't like his books, I can't argue with his success.
One company's "Price Gouging" is another's "Market Segmentation"
I could never understand how people operate with more than a dozen or so open tabs.
There is SIAG (Scheme in a Grid) that has been around for ages: https://siag.nu/siag/
I broke my 401-day ProductHunt streak
I was having a hard time keeping track of the streak after I broke my phone and it happened! I thought I entered the streak yesterday. I forgot! I broke my 401-day streak! Oh, man! Well, at least I have proof that I did 365 days. I held up well. :)

https://twitter.com/ugur2nd/status/1773973058950242747
> To me it feels like 90% of road works I pass actually has nobody there working at all. Some go on for years it seems.

This is for simple road resurfacing, which is usually done in a day or two anyway.

There are a lot of factors as to why road construction takes a long time, but the biggest reason is safety. They aren't completely closing the road in most cases so while a large section might be coned off, they are moving the worker protection (vehicle barriers) around from section to section.

Lots of specialized expensive equipment is involved where you might be waiting a week just for the thing you need to become available. Same with specialized workers and sub-contractors. Add in time you might just need to wait for concrete to harden to the point its safe to move a big piece of equipment onto it for the next phase.

Construction is a scheduling nightmare. You can throw money at the problem, but it is in the end tax dollars and rarely is there a good reason.
What an utterly hostile and naive view. We need rental buildings and thus we need landlords. There are many many scenarios where one may want to rent instead of buy. You need a place only for a few years, you need a place while you explore to decide where to buy, you don't have the money to buy yet, etc.

If your next suggestion is that all landlords be government run or run as a coop, no freaking thanks to the first and while coops are great I don't think only coops is a good solution. If you want only wealthy homeowners and the rest of the population living in communism style housing, very hard disagree.
You seem to be describing face recognition in Photos like it's a conspiracy against you. You'd prefer the data center servers looking at your data?
This is why Apple can be slightly more honest about their battery specs, they don’t have the OS working against them. Unfortunately most DELLs XPS will be running Windows, so it is still misleading to provide specs based on what the hardware could do if not sabotaged.
Those keyboards are absolutely ridiculous, sorry.
The number of tabs you have doesn’t correlate to the number of active web views you have, if you use any browser that unloads background tabs while still saving their state.
Sure, or MOO.

Even better, a MOO (or any MUD) client in emacs (rmoo.el, mud.el etc), which is how I got my start with emacs eons ago.
Other states can free-ride off of some of these innovations. But we also have to put up with the ways in which California regulations regarding fuel efficiency or whatever else hurt our markets. It's not clear that California's subsidies outweigh these effects.
Oh, I'm with you. But the funny thing is, they won't even want it.

I have two iPads and two pencils—that way each iPad is never without a penicl—and yet I rarely use the pencil. I just don't think about it. But then when I do, I'm like, "Why don't I use this more often? It's fantastic."

I have tried and tried to adapt and I can not. I need a mouse, keyboard, seperate numpad, and two 5K Displays to mostly arrive at the same output that someone can do with a single 11" or 13" screen and a bunch of differnt spaces that can be flicked through.

I desperatedly wanted to make the iPad my primary machine and I could not do it. But, honestly, I think it has more to do with me than the software. I've become old and stubborn. I want to do things my way.
SEEKING FREELANCER | USA | Remote work

Need a programmer with animation skills to develop an OBS plugin that outputs one random string from a series of inputs with a gachapon style animation.

Email me at frank@rts.gg with your LinkedIn, portfolio, Github, and availability (US Pacific Time).
https://sive.rs/slow

Made me realize that it's ok to be a slow thinker, and there is nothing wrong with me. It has it's own strengths and weaknesses. Whatever genetic lottery gave me I have to play with it
I think the argument is quite subtle.

There is a lot of book banning occurring and the rate seems to be increasing fast (see links below).

There are penalties in some jurisdictions and zero teachers want to face the kind of shit that has gone on with parents and politicians, churches and local body meetings.

So rather than search out each book they have and keep track of its status, then recheck a few weeks later, just remove the lot. Teachers do not have time for this crap, and why risk their jobs?

It’s chilling and it’s hard to see how this isn’t the aim. ‘Who ever needed more than a bible?’

https://pen.org/report/narrating-the-crisis/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/books/book-bans-public-sc...
I avoided all optional English class in school. But I still read at least one book a week, sometimes two.
> I just didn't find the characters in the books for my age group, who were largely written by women, to be relatable

Were you reading contemporary books or older books? I found that there's lots of fiction for boys, written by men, from the 19th and 20th centuries. A lot of it is very good, many popular classics like Treasure Island. Edit: I see you mentioned that one.
There was a US tax program last year that cut 30% of costs off of renewable energy projects. I took advantage of it - it brought the project from "will never pay for itself" to "pays for itself in ~3-5 years" due to the way the financing worked out with the tax credit.
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Hasn't RTO (return-to-office) mandate solved the issue of empty office towers. Other day I read 90% of employers have forced RTO. And for companies with significant downtown real estate they are really aggressive with 100% compliance.
The use case you mentioned is pretty much exactly what I've been wanting to do: run some EQ / filtering / compression on my decent mic so I sound great in Zoom and Google Meet video calls.

I tried using OBS' audio filters and routing through VB-Cable for that, but people in the call complained that my audio was lagging behind the video. If Audio Hijack would address that issue, or if anyone has other suggestions, I'd really appreciate it. So far it feels like "close, but no cigar".
If they're worried about not fitting through 16" studs (let alone this entire scenario), then they should select a room with two doors. If you can't fit through studs, I find it hard to believe they're fitting through most windows (generally a more awkward position with limited dimensions too).
The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound (2019)
hey! I've started a repository here: https://github.com/neural-maze/crewai_llama3_arduino

I'll be refactoring it during this week and then I'll create an article in my blog and a video in my Youtube channel talking about it, in case you are interested :)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaixkLsW_TWWe_0yZNmvPaw

https://neural-maze.github.io/blog/
The base iPad Air model - the one the price is most quoted - is 64GB.
I assume the reason this article has been published this week in particular is that a proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture has just been announced. [1]

The first paper in the series was posted to the arXiv yesterday. [2]

It’s obviously far too soon to say whether the proof is correct, but I’m sure experts will be taking a keen interest.

1. https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/gaitsgde/GLC/
2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03599
It just sounds like you mainly like 2d platformers and open source (which is fine). But Godot isn't nearly the best engine to use for 3D, and arguably may not even the best of the open soucre engines (for example O3DE may be better, although almost no one is using it right now). Most 3D indie devs are using Unity and many are switching to Unreal now just like AAA (for example Palwolrd). I think "out of touch" here means making false claims about something you (not you specifically but GP) don't even care to know about.
There’s always some wiseass saying “skill issue”
I got one of those at a FAANG interview. I was a bit less experienced and less confident at the time so I left the interview thinking I was misunderstanding some fundamental CS laws.
It doesn't guarantee anything, especially given the Republican super-majority already ensconced in SCOTUS, but there's only one small-d democratic way out of this situation...
Not sure how related it is, but I found this series on the AS/400 fascinating: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9tkJGALYJ6CzZSPwM-09E5tk...
That's an emphatic no.
Even on Android you can't download streaming media to OTG USB storage.
> I think parking lots are the ideal place for large scale solar.

There are numerous examples of that around where we live, in the foothills of the mountains north of Phoenix, where there are also lots of recent modern construction projects. One nice installation at a school a few minutes away has the panels on structures providing shade, all over blacktop, as you thought of.
In searching for the primary sources for the quotes in this article I found that "Extreme Metaphors" (ISBN 978-0-00-745485-3) seems to be the best collection of J. G. Ballard interviews.

Quite a few are collected here:

https://www.jgballard.ca/media/interviews.html

One of the interviews referenced in the OP can be found here:

https://www.jgballard.ca/media/1987_november_i-d_magazine.ht...
> I'm curious what makes you think the MBA is a more "full experience?"

The ability to install apps and third-party browsers without your democratically-elected representatives holding the OEM at gunpoint?
Start with just a local key binding that makes the button hack into isearch implementation, and 10 minutes demonstrated proof-of-concept later, you keep going, and by the end of the weekend, you've recreated the Canon Cat in Emacs. :)
Ca state destroyed its energy companies by creating cartels through PGE etc. PGE is unreliable, expensive and has such poor quality of service. (Not to mention immense harm they bring to environment by regularly causing forest fires). It is a poorly managed company that works only because of its collusion with Ca state.

I have installed 21 solar panels and I have a propane powered generator. My intention is to eventually move to batteries as well so I can be as independent of PgE as possible.
Former barista, it _is_ an unusual order from the perspective behind the bar. Unusual in that I never have heard of someone ordering a warmed cold brew.

I'm not certain how I'd warm it up. I suppose it could be poured into a clean frothing pitcher and steamed directly, I'd somewhat worry that might dilute the flavor of the coffee.

I don't reckon someone's going to want me to microwave their cold brew, but it certainly seems like it'd be the quickest way to do it.

Most cafe workers get into flows of orders. Lattes means you always pump syrups into the cup, start the pour, then steam milk. Cold coffees usually means you ready the cup (syrups, milk) and pour the cold brewed coffee onto it.

Warming the cold brew totally breaks that flow, and is why it would be unexpected.

Hope that perspective helps. I do want to try it now though! I could imagine it being pretty good.
I'm Victor, and worked with Vlad on this. I have been working on the other side, optimizing for Video products to get as much time spent as possible from users. But lately, I've had a change of heart. I'm on a mission to create something that counterbalances all that "entertainment" and dopamine hits we get online. Let's channel some of that screen time into stuff like homework, personal growth, and health. I'm a firm believer that AI can be our wingman in this quest to become our best selves and have a more balanced relationship with tech.
If that existed as a drop-in screen replacement on the framework laptop and with a high refresh rate color gallery 3 panel, then I'd buy it at that price point in a heart beat.

I can't replace my desktop monitor with eink because I occasionally play video games. I can't use a 2nd monitor because I live in a small apartment.

I can't replace my laptop screen with greyscale because I need syntax highlighting for programming.
For a contracting company the videos are exceptionally well produced.

They remind me of something more like an early-era discovery channel show like extreme engineering.

They just need to get mike rowe to narrate.
>Democratic freedoms, in the United States at least, protect people from UNREASONABLE search and seizure.

You're conflating what's written in the law and the sad reality of how a lot of that is simply ignored by law enforcement, while they are standing on your neck, searching your car.
What We're Up to in 2024 – Krita
They do it deliberately. They want you to throw it out and buy a new one
I suggest you go and look HOW it is done in apple silicon macs, and then think long and hard why this might make a huge difference. Maybe Asahi Linux guys can explain it to you ;)
These are neither pretty nor good examples ... but teletext [1] and the french minitel [2] surely were interesting

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
Some of them do it better than others though.
The problem is that agriculture is limited in hilly uplands (which are ecologically the most important places to avoid deforesting) because you don't want a tractor to tip over. However those places can now be cleared for solar.

>That wilderness isn’t going to be there anyway if we don’t address climate change as fast as we can.

By the same token, fixing climate change won't matter if we don't have any wilderness services left.

Either crisis will be catastrophic, and we need to fix both. I sometimes worry that we focus too much on just GHG climate change, to the exclusion of other issues like biodiversity, water, soil, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFSJINGueM&t=892
What sounds false about it?

A (very straightforward) search surfaced this article https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmq54/florida-teachers-are-...
Presumably because you're awake while working and can notice problems when they happen. Not so much when you're sleeping.